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1988 · 2h 8m · Drama
Rotten Tomatoes 88%Metacritic 65/100IMDb 8.0/10TMDB 7.8/10 (7,217 votes)
Rain Man is a 1988 American road comedy-drama film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass. It tells the story of abrasive and selfish wheeler-dealer Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his estranged father Sanford has died and bequeathed his multimillion-dollar estate to his other son, Raymond, an autistic savant of whose existence Charlie was unaware. Morrow created the character of Raymond after meeting real-life savant Kim Peek; his characterization was based on both Peek and Bill Sackter, a good friend of Morrow who was the subject of Bill, an earlier film that Morrow wrote.
Directed by Barry Levinson
Box office $355M worldwide
Common Sense Media calls it a drama about autistic savant with language, mature themes.[1]
Representation: The cast is almost all White, except for a minor Black character, and the only female character has a sexualized, flat role as Charlie's caring[1]
Family reviews:Plugged In ↗Common Sense Media ↗Dove ↗Movieguide ↗
Cast & crew political lean — 4 of 19 researched: 2 left · 0 center · 0 right · 2 no public record. Based only on cited public statements, endorsements, and documented donations.